I used www.WorldNomads.com. It’s basically catastrophic insurance. Not good for day-to-day stuff (as you have to pay something like 75$ to make a claim). Not bad if your grandma dies and you need to cancel your trip and fly back, though!

This is the most expensive by far. Let me clarify what this is: I would withdraw a week’s worth (màs o menos) of money from ATMs (using a AAA pre-paid debit card). I would use cash to pay for food, lodging, small gifts, local transport, entrance fees, etc. This was my “living money”, basically.

This was anything that I was replacing before I left. Shoes, ipods that got water-soaked in the monsoon rains, etc. Anything that was more than my daily/weekly stipend (see above). When you have 100-items, you don’t tend to buy much more.

ok– here’s the call to action stuff: I’m (finally) getting serious about publishing my book. What, about budget/money, would you like to know? What didn’t I answer ^^here that you want to know? Comment below or send an email to LN.Lurie(at)yahoo.com

SIDE NOTE! Speaking of book- I need an editor! Preferably someone with audio experience- as I have podcasts and stuff. Who reads this thing and is a content editor? Send me a comment or email (LN.Lurie(at)yahoo.com)

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If you’re going to write a book, I would go into more detail about your daily life when you were saving money (how’d you deal with “nights out” with friends, eating at work, etc), how you found lodging, buying/cooking food so you didn’t have to go to restaurants, what kind of planning you did do, and how you figured out your budget so you knew how much you needed to save.